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I am so happy I have been able to avoid AMP my entire career and this ensures that I will probably will never have to bother with it in the future. This 'web inside the web' stuff is so antithetical to what the web is supposed to be, I hope Google will just pull the plug like they do with just about everything else that isn't the search engine or G-mail.

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Or youtube, although that makes a lot of money so probably not anytime soon.

Or ads, 'cause why do they have search at all if not to search you ads?

Or maps, because geo searches are a source of revenue too :)

> Or youtube, although that makes a lot of money so probably not anytime soon

Does it? Alphabet quarterly reports don't list YouTube revenues and expenses separately, and i imagine something like YouTube costs a shit load of money in storage and bandwidth.

I'm sure compute isn't a small amount either. Video encoding is not cheap.

Yeah, they went as far as designing a custom chip for encoding.

Yeah, come to think of it I guess it’s not obvious is profitable and definitely not extremely profitable.

Technically (and by accident) what I originally said is still true— it makes a lot of money (but may cost a lot of money) and so it still looks good on quarterly reports (esp. if they bury the costs) so they’ll keep it around.

Plus, I wouldn’t be surprised if my Google search results were informed and improved by their data about my watch history.

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